Hi,

I encountered a strange problem to read some keys from registry.

My program should be run on Win7 32|64 bit and XP 32|64 bit (All options).

I successfully run the following simple code on Win7 64bit: 

use Win32::Registry;
my $Register = "Software";
my ($hkey, @key_list, $key);

$HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE->Open($Register,$hkey)|| die $!;
$hkey->GetKeys(\@key_list);
print "$Register keys\n";
foreach $key (@key_list)
    {
    print "$key\n";
    }
$hkey->Close();

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But if I create registry key "Software\\Test" NOT UNDER "SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node" the program failed – can read the key

my $Register = "Software\\Test";

How can I control the reading from registry for 32 and 64

How can I control to read this key:

Software\\Test

And How can I control to read this key:

SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\\Test

Please advice

In reply to Reading key from registry (32 and 64 Bit) by roteme

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